• Sumitomo Heavy Industries' SMS-E renewed its semiconductor laser annealing research partnership with France's CEA-Leti for three years.
• The collaboration, launched in 2017, focuses on nanosecond laser annealing to enable stacked transistor layers while minimizing thermal impact on underlying devices.
• SMS-E plans to install its QA-3000 laser annealing platform at CEA-Leti, extending research capabilities to microsecond processing.
• The platform supports sub-melt to melt processing for applications including power semiconductors, advanced logic and next-generation memory.

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